Singing Along...

I don't know about you guys, but I love to listen to music. All kinds, doesn't matter what it is, there's great stuff out there for all kinds of tastes. Rap doesn't count, they just steal their beats from real artists and semi-rhyme. Rap crap is just dumb.

So anyway, back to what I wanted to get to. People like music, but these same people don't understand why people would pay in excess of $80 for a concert ticket to see their favorite bands perform the songs they love. Why pay that much when I can stay at home and listen to the songs I love on my stereo and not have to pay a ton to be elbow to elbow with crazy fans lighting up as soon as the lights go dim when they come on stage?

I'll tell you why. When you get to sing along with your favorite songs while the singers sing, it's the greatest feeling ever. While you're screaming the lyrics at the top of your lungs, which is why concerts are so loud - so people can't actually hear each other because that would just be awful, you get goose bumps thinking about all the memories you have tied to that song and now you're singing it along with the band that wrote it.

Some bands are great when you listen to them on the CD (or mp3 for now a days), but they are just terrible performers or sounds atrocious live. These bands are crap, stop listening to them. The ones that can put out a good album but are great live, these are the bands that hang around and are successful.

Now I don't know where the tradition started with the lighters and now cell phones coming out during the good songs, but this is just stupid. I haven't been to a concert to awhile, see previous blogs about having kids, so I don't know if this is still being done. If this does happen when you go to a show, punch anyone that does this in the neck that may be in your immediate vicinity. Hopefully this will get rid of this problem and make this country great again!

Eeeehhhhh, Iiii'mm, I'm still alive! Keep on rockin in the free world! Insert your favorite lyrics here!